Re: bta2dpd - advanced audio distribution profile bluetooth daemon

[Waitman Gobble <uzimac%da3m0n8t3r.com@localhost>]

On Sat, September 12, 2015 6:31 pm, Nathanial Sloss wrote:
> Hi,
>
>
> Call for testers of my new daemon with help from Iain Hibbert.
>
>
> It allows you to stream music or pad(4) output to bluetooth stereo
> headphones or speakers using the advanced audio distribution profile
> (a2dp).
>
>
> This program is alpha ware and will work on NetBSD-current, 7 and 6.
>
>
> To compile:
> extract the archive from
> ftp://ftp.NetBSD.org/pub/NetBSD/misc/nat/bta2dpd-v46.tgz
>
>
> change to the extracted directory and make(1). ie. $cd bta2dp-bsd-v46
> $make.
>
>
> pair up your bluetooth headphones/speakers: #btpin -P .... -a
> bluetooth-device-address
>
> And your ready to go...
>
>
>
> To use this deamon requires 44100Hz stereo signed 16 bit little endian
> wav files or the pad(4) device.
>
> $./bta2dpd -a bluetooth-device-address my.wav
> or $./bta2dpd -a bluetooth-device-address /dev/pad0
>
>
> Most of the options change the way audio is encoded and are not necessary
>  however if you have skipping audio or no audio try the following:
>
> ./bta2dpd -a bluetooth-device-address -M 300 my.wav
> or ./bta2dpd -a bluetooth-device-address -M 300 -B 36 my.wav
>
>
> The -M option limits the maximum amount of data sent to the bluetooth
> device per transaction, if you still have problems try an MTU of 700 (-M
> 700) and
> work your way down by hundreds.
>
> The -B option limits the bitpool value used for encoding the stream and
> although the daemon calculates the bitpool value it might not work in all
> cases.
>
> Best regards,
>
>
> Nat.
>
>

Thank you, I'll check it out. It's only acting as source at the moment
correct? It would be great to function as sink.


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